Judy's Review:
This is the long-awaited and deeply engrossing sequel to Coben’s “The Boy from the Woods,” the story of Wilde, a feral child found aged 5 living alone and abandoned in the Ramapo Mountains in New Jersey.
Three decades later the solitary Wilde succumbs to the urge to trace his parents through a DNA ancestry website. He finds his father in Nevada, who tells Wilde he had no idea he had a son, and that he must be the product of a one-night stand with a woman whose name he can’t remember.
He is deeply unhappy about telling his wife and daughters he has an illegitimate child, so, none the wiser about how he came to be abandoned in the woods, Wilde retreats and abandons his DNA search.